Blog is Taking a Break

This blog is taking it easy this week. Thanks to those readers who have been subscribing to the posts in this blog and those who visit the blog occasionally or even accidentally. Next week will see posts concerning Russian-American relationships relating to Ms. Rice's visit to Moscow, Russian economy outlook, posts on Russian Journalism, as well as the summary of the EU-Russia summit in Samara (which does not look good).

Here is the video of the week. Basement Jaxx gives us their version of Russian culture: dancing bears, balalaikas so big they have their own balalaikas, and a Stalin-looking general on a tank.